Chapter 420 Inspecting Industry
Liu Feng noticed this and couldn't help but smile bitterly. He had forgotten for a moment that Mi Zhu was very different from the original time and space.
Mi Zhu in the original time and space, when Liu Bei was trapped in Haicheng, made up his mind to increase investment and directly spent hundreds of millions of goods, various materials and weapons, a large amount of food, and his own precious sister.
But this timing is quite subtle. At that time, Liu Bei was stabbed in the back by Lu Bu, defeated Xiapi and Xuyi, and was defeated by Lu Bu and Yuan Shu in succession. The reason why the army was not defeated was entirely because Liu Bei's personal charm was too high.
But even so, Liu Bei, who was trapped in a corner of Haicheng, was so depressed that he couldnibalize human flesh.
But Liu Bei did not eat the flesh of the common people like Cao Jun did, but the flesh of soldiers and officials who died of illness or starvation.
It is conceivable that the investment point chosen by the Mi family is really open to question.
Liu Bei is a hero.
Even the most talented and beautiful Cao Mengde regarded Liu Bei as a hero, and he was the only hero who could be compared with himself.
How can such a person accept coercion?
Regardless of whether the Mi family has the intention of coercion or not, if they choose this point to increase their bets, they have already committed coercive behavior.
This is also the thorn between the Liu and Mi families that will never be removed in the future.
It was precisely because of this incident that Mi Zhu kept a low profile in the future and worked diligently as a mascot. On the contrary, his younger brother Mi Fang, who was not as talented and virtuous as him, was still able to fight beside Liu Bei.
But now it's completely different.
The marriage contract between the Mi family and the Liu family was changed to that between Liu Feng and Mi Yue. The most important thing is that the Mi family's investment seemed to be a matter of course, without any hint of coercion. Instead, it was in a low-profile manner to please.
After all, Liu Feng not only has a much higher status than the Mi family, but is actually making a lot of money with the Mi family.
In this way, Mi Zhu, who had thrown away his burdens, naturally had his own ambitions. He wanted to make great achievements and follow Liu Feng and Liu Bei and his son to become famous in history.
In addition, the two brothers served as county guards in Xuzhou, which was indeed a blink of an eye. In fact, it was not just the Mi brothers who thought so. Many people secretly gave Liu Bei advice, either explicitly or implicitly, and suggested that the Mi brothers be transferred away. .
However, Liu Bei just laughed it off and never took it seriously.
With such a good opportunity now, it was only natural that Mi Zhu couldn't help it.
But although Mi Zhu had a good idea, Liu Feng really couldn't find anyone to replace him for a while.
There are countless people under Liu Feng who are now more talented than Mi Zhu, but when it comes to their understanding of business and industry, there are really few who can surpass Mi Zhu.
Even those few who do have more important tasks are unlikely to be transferred to Pengcheng to serve as state ministers.
Therefore, Liu Feng had to appease Mi Zhu and said: "Brother, Pengcheng is extremely important now. All weapons, armor, and farm tool parts are inseparable from the Pengcheng workshop. It is really a troubled time now, and there are clouds of war on all sides. There is a fear that a war will come. At this time Pengcheng cannot do without your presence, so please take care of me.”
After hearing Liu Feng's words, Mi Zhu was obviously a little frustrated, but he still forced himself to reply: "General Zuo, please rest assured, Zhu will do his best to maintain it."
Compared to Mi Zhu's frustration, Mi Fang couldn't help but feel happy.
This piece of fat meat in Yongning County was originally prepared by Liu Feng for the Mi family. Since his brother couldn't eat it, wouldn't it just fall into his Mi Fang's bowl?
"Two brothers, Feng still has something to do and needs your help."
Liu Feng immediately brought up the issue of public debt.
The Mi family themselves have a lot of wealth in their hands. The gold and silver can be at least a thousand catties, and five baht should be worth hundreds of millions.
Liu Feng naturally has his eye on the Mi family, otherwise if they continue to hoard like this, Liu Feng will still have a headache.
When Mi Zhu and Mi Fang heard about public debt, their first reaction was exactly the same as Cao Bao's, which was to extort bribes.
But soon they both realized that the person in front of them was Liu Feng.
This is not to say that Liu Feng is not greedy for money, but Liu Feng's character has been unanimously recognized by Cao Bao and the Mi family. Even if Liu Feng wants to raise money, he can just ask directly, why use such a despicable method.
After thinking about this, the Mi brothers seriously thought about the public debt.
After thinking about it, the two of them really saw a lot of things.
Unlike Cao Bao, even Mi Fang has a strong economic mind. After all, she comes from a business family. Even if she is not as sharp as Mi Zhu, she still has basic awareness.
They all saw that Liu Feng's purpose was not just to collect money.
"This matter is of great concern, and I can't make a decision right now."
Mi Zhu considered it and said, "Can you allow me to discuss it at home?"
Liu Feng nodded understandingly: "There is nothing wrong with you."
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang left in a hurry and went to their father's place in the backyard.
After Mi Zeng heard this, his judgment was the same as that of Mi Zhu and Mi Fang. He felt that Liu Feng had many other purposes besides collecting money.
The most obvious one is to try to take sides. It doesn't matter who bought the government bonds, but it does matter who didn't.
Secondly, it is also possible that the war is imminent and Liu Feng wants to expand his material reserves and goods.
Not to mention the distance, this time he went south to Jiangdong and wiped out Liu Yao, Sun Ce, Wang Lang and others. When he was reorganizing his army not long ago, Liu Feng distributed 120 million in goods in one go.
Although these goods also included a large amount of silk, cloth, salt and grain, coins also accounted for more than one-third, which was a figure of 50 to 60 million. Coupled with the expenses of the entire army, Liu Feng will indeed be short of money if a war is imminent.
"The most important thing right now is how my family should make a decision."
Mi Zhu's words brought everyone back from their suspicions.
Mi Zeng suddenly asked: "How much is this public debt?"
Mi Fang replied: "Father, I heard from General Zuo that there are 350 million allocated to our Donghai Kingdom. I hope we can help underwrite it."
Mi Zeng looked over doubtfully: "Underwriting?"
Mi Fang hurriedly explained: "I just want to help with sales and try my best to help General Zuo sell public bonds."
Mi Zeng suddenly understood and nodded. The shops on the ground floor below the Mi family also provided similar services. For example, folk items were sold in the Mi family's shop. Once the transaction was completed, a commission would be drawn.
"Three hundred and fifty million..."
Mi Zeng calculated silently, then looked up at Mi Zhu: "Zizhong, what do you think?"
Mi Zhu had obviously already thought of the answer. When his father asked the question, he immediately replied: "My family will buy half of it."
"Oh?" Mi Zeng looked at Mi Zhu pretending to be confused: "Only buy half of it?"
The Mi family is originally a wealthy family in the East China Sea, with hundreds of millions of belongings in the family, and even hundreds of millions of working capital.
Now, following Liu Feng, he eats meat and drinks soup, and his wealth has increased much more than in previous years.
In just the past two or three years, the annual income has exceeded hundreds of millions, which is much more than Cao Bao's share. After all, in addition to snow salt and frost sugar, there are ports, warships, merchant ships, sesame oil, iron ore, etc. The Mi family can get a share of arms, farm tools, etc.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Mi family can immediately come up with more than 100 million in cash. If given another half month, raising 400 million in goods would definitely not be a problem.
This also means that the Mi family can easily wipe out all the 350 million public debt allocated by Liu Feng to the Donghai Kingdom on their own, and there is no need to distribute it to other powerful noble families.
But Mi Zhu's opinion was to only buy half of it, so it's not surprising that Mi Zeng asked in confusion.
In fact, Mi Zeng's doubts may not be true, but Mi Fang, who was listening on the sidelines, was really confused.
If his father hadn't been here and asked his doubts for him, he would have asked them a long time ago.
Amid the curiosity of Mi Zeng and Mi Fang, Mi Zhu shook his head heavily and replied: "Half is enough, but too much is not enough."
Hearing this, Mi Zeng burst out laughing, and then wanted to say something to Mi Fang.
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But looking at his youngest son's clear eyes, Mi Zeng finally swallowed his words again.
"Just do it according to Zizhong's idea."
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The main purpose of Liu Feng's visit this time was to get engaged, and selling public bonds was just a side matter. Although the amount of public debt is as high as more than 300 million, with Liu Feng's current status, how much more than 300 million does he still need to come to the door in person?
Regarding the result that the Mi family took half of the amount and guaranteed the underwriting of the other half, Liu Feng had almost no fluctuation in his heart.
The Mi family is not like the Cao family. How different are the foundations between the two families?
Apart from Cao Bao drinking the soldiers' blood, depriving the soldiers of their rations, seizing them, and Tao Qian giving them money to buy equipment, what else can they add to the Cao family's wealth?
If not for this, I would not have eaten part of Cao Hong's family property with Xu Dan, and would have been so happy as if I had made a fortune. You must know that the family property of 10 to 20 million yuan could not be handed over to Liu Bei and Zhou Apart from half of the government, there are quite a few other people who want to be divided.
It is estimated that the real money that can fall into Cao Bao's pocket is only five to six million.
One can imagine how narrow Cao Bao's horizons is. He has never seen big money.
How does this compare to the wealthy Mi family?
Cao Bao now sits in the position of Xiapi Prefect, and those who were persuaded by Cao Qing have become upright officials. His biggest income now is the share Liu Feng gives him every year.
But the Mi family was different. Although Liu Feng brought a much larger share to the Mi family than the Cao family, without this share, the Mi family could still make money every day.
So not to mention that the Mi family only ate half of the public debt, it would not be surprising if Liu Feng ate all of it. Besides, Liu Feng also guessed that the Mi family only ate half to show their sense of propriety. Could the other half still be unsold?
Even if there were any leftovers, the Mi family could just use some gloves and eat them all.
The most important thing left for Liu Feng is to inspect the industries near Qu County.
The people accompanying Liu Feng were naturally the brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, which disappointed Liu Feng, who originally thought Mi Yue might be accompanying him.
Liu Feng also knew that although women in this era were far less conservative than they would be in the future, it was still impossible to meet before marriage. Even if Liu Feng and the Mi family were not engaged, he would have had the opportunity to meet Mi Yue. Naturally, everyone understands the reason.
Mi Zhu first accompanied Liu Feng to the port. The location of the port was the same harbor that Liu Feng had admired when he stood on Qushan Mountain.
Now this place has been completely changed. A brand new port has been erected. There are two blue stone plank roads and six sunken wood plank roads. There are eight docks in the shipyard next to it. All the products produced here can be Sailing sea ship.
Now the eight shipyards are working at full capacity to add ships to Liu Feng's command as quickly as possible.
The last time they landed at Qiantang, they outflanked Sun Ce and damaged dozens of large and small ships. Now Xuezhou and Zheng Bao want to go south to Dongye to provide naval assistance to He Qi, which also requires a large number of ships.
The difference between river boats and sea boats is quite big. It is difficult for river boats to enter the sea, but sea boats can enter the river.
Because the bottoms of sea-going ships are all pointed, while the river boats of this era were mostly flat-bottomed.
The main reason why this is the case is because the technical threshold of flat-bottomed boats is low and they are sufficient for use in rivers. After all, there is only one Yangtze River in China.
Because of the existence of the Yangtze River, there are more pointed-bottomed boats in the south. On the one hand, it is because the Haihe River in the south often communicates with each other. Even if there is no long-distance voyage, pointed-bottomed boats are needed for offshore activities. The second aspect is the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River is so vast that at its widest point it is difficult to see the other side even on a clear day.
Such a wide river is almost the same as the offshore. Once there are wind and waves, a flat-bottomed boat can easily capsize. That's why the ships in the south had no choice but to spontaneously upgrade to sharp-bottomed ships with a higher technical threshold.
"Brother Zizhong."
Liu Feng looked at the dock and said to Mi Zhu, "Have you seen the ship model I sent earlier?"
Mi Zhu nodded immediately: "I have seen it. It is a wonderful workmanship. Zheng Gong and Lu Gong couldn't put it down after seeing it. According to your request, the first batch of two test ships have been launched and are undergoing sea voyages."
What Liu Feng sent before was a small ship model. Its prototype was the 16th-century Spanish sailing battleship Manila Galleon. Both the ship and the model were quite famous. Liu Feng had bought one before crossing over and stitched it together himself. Model.
Liu Feng relied on the guidance of the craftsmen around him to make this model, except that the cannons on the side of the ship were missing, and the mysterious water warfare weapon racket poles located at the front and rear of the warship were added.
The technical difficulty of pole shooting is not very difficult and it is relatively easy to be imitated.
But it doesn't matter to Liu Feng, because he has now conquered the three states of Yu, Xu, and Yang, and has almost no opponents in Jiaozhou. The only enemy in water warfare is Liu Biao of Jingzhou.
As long as Paigang can help Liu Feng wipe out the Jingzhou Navy in one battle, it doesn't matter even if it is leaked.
"It is not only necessary to carry out sea navigation, but also to carry out river navigation. If it is successful, six more ships can be built and incorporated into the navy."
Liu Feng warned that the data he gave was far inferior to the real Manila Galleon in history, and was at most a bankrupt version.
The reason is actually very simple. Although the Eastern Han Dynasty also had a large number of sea-going ships, the technology of the Manila galleon was too advanced and the tonnage was too huge to make a man fat in one sitting.
Therefore, Liu Feng lowered a lot of data. At most, this new ship is a pocket-sized version of the Manila Galleon.
However, even if it is a pocket version, the tonnage and scale after it is built have far exceeded all current ships.
Now that the first two ships have been built and launched, as long as Hainan Airlines and Jianghang Airlines pass smoothly, Liu Feng will have another trump card against the Jingzhou Navy.
Jingzhou's navy relies on only two things. The first is the elite navy sergeants, and the second is the huge and advanced warships.
Liu Feng now accepted the Sun family's inheritance, and coupled with his carefully trained navy, he had already crushed the Jingzhou navy soldiers on the first point.
Now that the new ship has been launched, it will undoubtedly crush the Jingzhou navy on the second point. Liu Feng is increasingly looking forward to what Liu Biao's expression will be when the time comes.
Jingxiang is integrated into one, and almost most of it relies on waterways.
Once Liu Biao's army that went south to put down the rebellion was cut off by Liu Feng, Liu Biao's expression must have been quite wonderful.
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